AMD Athlon Silver 3050C vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 3000 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000
• Family
  Athlon Ryzen Threadripper
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Generation
  4 3
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Series
  Athlon 3000 Series Ryzen Threadripper 3000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.3 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 32
• CPU Threads
  2 64
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  3.2 GHz 4.5 GHz
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.2 GHz 4.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (32 Cores)
  - 3.8 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  3 -
• Generation
  8 -
• GPU Frequency
  1100 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Graphics None
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -
• Graphics Cores
  2 -
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q1/2018 -
• Shader
  192 -
• Technology
  14 nm -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X and AMD Athlon Silver 3050C. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 2048 GB
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4
• PCIe lanes
  8 72
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0
• PCIe
  - PCIe 4.0
• System Memory Specification
  - 3200

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Configurable TDP
  12-25 W -
• Default TDP
  15 W 280 W
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 280 W
• TDP down
  12 W -
• TDP up
  25 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Castle Peak (Zen 2)
• Codename
  Dali Castle Peak
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L1-Cache
  0.1875 MB 2 MB
• L2-Cache
  1 MB 16 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 128 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YM305CC4T2OFG 100-000000011
• Operating systems
  ChromeOS / Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit / Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition
• Release date
  2020-09-22 2019-11-25
• Socket
  FP5 sTRX4
• Technology
  14nm TSMC 7nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  - 100-100000011WOF
• Thermal Solution (PIB)
  - Not Included